The statistical analysis of the 59 previous studies, however, seems to support an opposing view, which argued that the "national sense of purpose" in Israel and "togetherness" offer a more supportive environment than elsewhere, she says. "The fact that the troubles of war and pressures that come with it are shared by everyone could help reduce trauma and isolation rather than augment it,"
"Israel has ceremonies, panels, commemorations. Society is more open to discussing the Holocaust and this could relieve survivors' sense of isolation,"
This has a lot of topics:Hitler, Victims of the holocaust: Jews, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnessess, and Anne Frank, The concentration camps, and survivors.
Ghetto revolts and other armed Jewish resistance during the Holocaust are among the formative elements of Israeli Holocaust memory and Israeli national identity. This essay illustrates how Holocaust Ex-fighters have worked to make the story of armed Jewish resistance a part of Israel's national narrative.
set out to commemorate the armed Jewish resistance and the central role they played in making the resistance into an important element of Israeli identity.
The ability to fight and resist its attackers or oppressors was judged by many to be an indication of a society's moral fiber.
Jewish Fighting Organization (Zydowska Organizacja Bojowa; ZOB)
Molotov cocktails, hand grenades, and a handful of small arms
During the same year, ghetto inhabitants rose against the Germans in Vilna (Vilnius), Bialystok, and a number of other ghettos
Jewish prisoners rose against their guards at three killing centers
Thousands of young Jews resisted by escaping from the ghettos into the forests.
There they joined Soviet partisan units or formed separate partisan units to harass the German occupiers.
At Treblinka in August 1943 and Sobibor in October 1943, prisoners armed with stolen weapons attacked the SS staff and the Trawniki-trained auxiliary guards
Jewish Special Detachment (Sonderkommando)
the SS identified five women, four of them Jewish, who had been involved in supplying the members of the Sonderkommando with explosives to blow up a crematorium. All five women were killed.
I was looking for someone who actually experienced the Hitler era but from a child's perspective and this is what I found. An interview with Heinz Briegel.
Hitler youth info on how it was reorganized after Hitler became Chancellor of Germany and some more General info on the Hitler youth and some key points and facts about the youth.